Trends In Distributed Systems

This report examines the issues associated with distributed computing. Topics include: core elements of distributed computing; client/server architectures; messaging and middleware; worldwide access; system and network management; and future trends in distributed computing.

Proceedings -- Parallel Computing.

USM 2000 is the third event in a series of international IFIP/GI conferences on Trends in Distributed Systems. Following the venues in Aachen, Germany (1996) and Hamburg, Germany (1998), this event in Munich considers the trend towards a Universal Service Market – USM 2000. The trend towards a universal service market has many origins, e.g., the integration of telecom and data communications, the deregulation e?orts with respect to telco markets, the globalization of information, the virtualization of companies, the requirement of a short time-to-market, the advances in network technologies, the increasing acceptance of e-commerce, and the increase in - bility. This leads to new business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-customer (B2C) environments that o?er both challenges and opportunities to enterprises and end-users. There is the need for ubiquitous services, trading, brokering and information management, for service market and business models, and for ?e- ble infrastructures for dynamic collaboration. Researchers, service vendors, and users must cooperate to set up the app- priate requirements for a universal service market and to ?nd solutions with respect to supporting platforms, middleware, distributed applications, and m- agement. The basis for these solution is a common understanding of means for de?ning, creating, implementing, and deploying the service market. Then, s- vice market makers, service aggregators, service auctioneers, ISP, ASP, BPO, and customers can freely interact in a dynamic, open, and universal market place.

Many applications follow the distributed computing paradigm, in which parts of the application are executed on different network-interconnected computers. The extension of these applications in terms of number of users or size has led to an unprecedented increase in the scale of the infrastructure that supports them. Large-Scale Distributed Computing and Applications: Models and Trends offers a coherent and realistic image of today's research results in large scale distributed systems, explains state-of-the-art technological solutions for the main issues regarding large scale distributed systems, and presents the benefits of using large scale distributed systems and the development process of scientific and commercial distributed applications.

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on [title], held in Lisbon, Portugal in September 1993. Sessions are devoted to multimedia experiments, system management, multimedia protocols, future systems, groups and cooperative work, fault tolerance, design of distributed applications, object-oriented systems, network performance, software design and testing, real-time systems, algorithms and protocols, distributed network processing, specification, future networks, and operating systems issues. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Revised and updated throughout to take into account significant new developments in distributed computing. Reflects on latest technology and includes new case studies, including real-time distributed systems.